Tassadit Mandi

Les Enchantés (2025)

When 6-year-old Luce starts school, she realizes that her father Thierry is mentally impaired. Until the start of school, the father-daughter team lived in seclusion in the forest. Her class teacher takes care of Luce. ...

Five Years From Now (2024)

Hakim is mysteriously sent into the future, but only five years from now... ...

Head in the Stars (2023)

Ali, a thirty-something from the suburbs, still lives with his mother and his 8-year-old daughter. Lazy and without any particular ambition, he scrapes by doing odd jobs as a fast-food delivery driver. Following a delivery, he finds himself, by a twist of ...

The In(famous) Youssef Salem (2023)

Youssef Salem, 45, has always managed to miss his writing career. But the trouble begins when his new novel becomes a success because Youssef couldn't help but be inspired by his own, for better or worse. He must now avoid at all costs that his book falls ...

Hard Shell, Soft Shell (2021)

Az works for an oyster farmer in Sète. He knows oysters by heart, he opens them by the hundreds. In one of them, Az decides to hide a ring, to ask his girlfriend Jess to marry him. She doesn't say yes. Fortunately, his band of friends are ready to do anyt ...

A Brighter Tomorrow (2021)

Thirty-something Mehdi is a safecracker. He and his mates are just trying to get by, but robbery isn't paying like it used to. Day to day Mehdi tries to be a good son to his mother, and a good father to his 1-year-old son to win back his ex, Sarah. ...

White Noises (2021)

Hervé knows how to get in touch with the Other Side, no doubt about that. But the real difficulty in spiritism sessions isn't receiving signs, it's understanding them. ...

The Invisibles (2019)

Following a city councils decision, a women's shelter will soon be closed and social workers have only three months to accommodate the residents. ...

Nothing to Hide (2018)

To spice up a dinner party, old friends agree to share every private message that pops up on their phones -- with disastrous results. ...

Coexist (2017)

An opportunistic music producer brings together a rabbi, a priest, and an imam to preach about peaceful coexistence through song. But he's in for a surprise when he realizes the religious leaders are far from saints. ...

Paris la blanche (2017)

With no news from her husband, who left in the '70s to work in France, a middle-aged Rekia leaves her village and goes on a journey to Paris. She crosses Algeria and the Mediterranean Sea, gets lost in the alleys of the quarter of Pigalle, to finally find ...

Don't Leave Me! (2016)

A French women lives her worst nightmare when she discovers that her daughter has been radicalised, and plans to leave for her "husband" in Syria. ...

Dheepan (2015)

Three war-torn strangers posing as a family flee Sri Lanka's civil war to start over in a troubled Paris suburb, but their past traumas resurface as they struggle to survive in their new environment. ...

Macadam Stories (2015)

Improbable encounters bring tenderness, laughter and compassion to a world of urban alienation. ...

Harissa mon amour (2013)

Top Floor Left Wing (2010)

Like every morning, François Echeveria, a bailiff, should have been able to make a seizure in a suburban city, then quietly return home. But that day, fate decided otherwise. Due to a misunderstanding, he is taken hostage by an impoverished father and his ...

Aïcha (2009)

A few miles from Paris, on the other side of the northern ring road, stands a ghetto neighborhood with countless rows of dilapidated apartment buildings, their concrete crumbling and iron rusting. A multiracial community has long been rooted here, while mo ...

Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest (2006)

Raised on tales of a Djinn fairy princess, Azur, a young Frenchman goes to North Africa in search of the sprite, only to discover that his close childhood friend, Asmar, an Arab youth whose mother raised both boys also seeks the genie. ...

Life Kills Me (2002)

Paul is a smart, university educated Frenchman of North African ancestry. He's a smooth talker, but he can't seem to get a job worthy of his skills. He ends up living in a single room, struggling to get by while going on many fruitless job interviews, duri ...

The Best Job in the World (1996)

To be closer to his children following his divorce, Laurent Monier, a history and geography teacher in a peaceful provincial high school, accepts a position in a sensitive college in the Paris suburbs. He is assigned the hardest class, the fourth techno, a ...

The Crisis (1992)

Victor is a legal advisor who finds himself abandoned by his wife and fired the same day. He tries to seek comfort from different friends and family members, but everyone he meets is concerned with their own problems. His morale begins to falter when he re ...